June Thomas is a Slateculture critic and editor of Outward, Slate’s LGBTQ section.

By all means let’s throw some love at actors doing great work in terrible shows. But Jim, I can’t agree with you about Thomas Lennon in Sean Saves the World. I’ve loved his work in the past, but that awful, soulless show leaches the charisma from everyone who walks on set. And what about The Millers over on CBS? It, too, has neutered a whole bunch of actors who’ve been great on other shows. If this were the only place you’d ever seen Will Arnett, Beau Bridges, and Jayma Mays, you’d write them off as a bunch of pathetic no-talents. But nothing can dim Margo Martindale’s star power. A few weeks ago, she performed a variation on Jack Nicholson’s “You can’t handle the truth” speech that made me want to stand up and applaud. (Instead, I emailed a friend to say, “I know the show’s awful, but fast-forward to Margo Martindale’s scenes.”) I’m still mad that The Millers will keep her from spending the whole season on The Americans, though.

I don’t want to leave without mentioning that I think this was the year when we broke through some kind of foreign-language barrier on U.S. television. Three of us have non-English-language shows in our top 10, but I was also glad that FX didn’t freak out about all the Spanish on The Bridge or the Russian on The Americans, not to mention that great ASL episode of Switched at Birth over on ABC Family.

This has been so much fun. I just wish we could end with a dance, like on Bunheads.